Flores:
202 photos of Flores, the second largest of the Lesser Sunda islands in
the Indonesian Nusa Tenggara province, 06.11.2016

Komodo
national park: 85 photos of the Komodo national park in
Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara province, 20.10.2016

Sumba:
185 photos of Sumba, a large island in east Indonesia known for its
traditional villages and characteristic culture, 12.10.2016

West
Timor: 173 photos of West Timor, a province of east
Indonesia, 28.09.2016

Creation of the "All images" galleries: the "All images"
gallery is
a big gallery containing all images of all lower level galleries. Below
the each image, in the large view, there is some short text explaning
the details of the location of the image. "All images" galleries have
max. 200 images (to avoid having huge pages which take forever to
load). 12.09.2016

Abu Dhabi:
144 photos of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Two
images of the airport added on 11.08.2016.

Dubai:
305 photos of Dubai, an Arabian emirate, with beautiful beaches and
many shopping malls. 18 new images added on 11.08.2016 (7 in the malls
gallery, 10 in the Jumeirah hotels, one in the views gallery.

Desaru:
15 photos of the beach in Desaru in southeastern Johor, 11.08.2016

Airport:
10 photos of the Indira Gandhi International Airport near Delhi,
11.08.2016

Rancabali
district: 31 photos of the Rancabali district in Java, a
beautiful area of mountains and high plains, 05.08.2016

Bangkok:
230 photos of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. 65 new images,
07.05.2014

Garama
river: 25 photos of the Garama river, a wildlife area
southwest of KK (Sabah) with proboscis monkeys, 16.04.2014

Modified the main country pages by adding a section titled
"Related travelogues" which contains a list of travelogues relevant to
the country or area. The travelogues lists contain short excerpts of
the travelogues. 12.04.2014

Musandam:
66 photos of the Musandam peninsula, an Oman exclave at the
northeastern tip of the Arabian peninsula, 28.03.2014

Dubai:
287 photos of
Dubai, an Arabian emirate, with beautiful beaches and many shopping
malls, 18.03.2014. 85 new images added to the galllery.

Liwa oasis:
62 photos of the Liwa oasis, a very large oasis 160km southwest of Abu
Dhabi, 02.03.2014

Tunku
Abdul Rahman national park: 39 photos of the Tunku Abdul
Rahman NP, consisting of five islands near Kota Kinabalu. 19 new images
of 2011, 20 images of 2003 of which most have been reprocessed for
better colour rendering, 08.02.2013

Stramberk:
26 photos of the beautiful village of Stramberk in the
Moravian-Silesian hills in eastern Czechia, 18.01.2013

Roznov
pod Radhostem: 19 photos of the open air museum in Roznov pod
Radhostem with its collection of Wallachian buildings, 18.01.2013

Olomouc:
16 photos of the city of Olomouc in eastern Czechia famous for its Holy
Trinity Column, 18.01.2013

Jindrichuv
Hradec: 15 photos of Jindrichuv Hradec in southern Czechia, a
beautiful city with a castle on a pond, 18.01.2013

Cesky
Krumlov: 28 photos of the picturesque city of Cesky Krumlov
in the southwest of the Czech republic, 18.01.2013

Kromeriz:
36 photos of Kromeriz, a city in southeast Czechia, famous for its
bishop's castle and flower gardens, 18.01.2013

Ceske
Budejovice: 10 photos of Ceske Budejovice, a small city in
southwest Czechia, home to the Budweiser brewery, 18.01.2013

Wroclaw:
36 photos of Wroclaw, a pleasant city in southwest Poland with a
historic centre and a large university, 10.12.2012

Wieliczka
salt mine: 16 photos of the Wieliczka salt mine in southern
Poland, a UNESCO world heritage site since 1978, 10.12.2012

Kalwaria
Zebrzydowska: 13 photos of the monastery in Kalwaria
Zebrzydowska located to the southwest of Krakow, 10.12.2012

Auschwitz:
46 photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp near Krakow in Poland,
10.12.2012

Jawor
Church of Peace: 16 photos of the Church of Peace in Jawor
(Poland), one of the largest timber-framed religious buildings in
Europe, 28.11.2012

Malaysia
2012: a brief trip to the islands off Semporna in Sabah,
famous for the marine life around them and their beautiful beaches, and
KL, 24.11.2012

Indonesia
2012: three days spent visiting Jakarta, the capital of
Indonesia, a modern city whose historic heritage has been largely
destroyed, 24.11.2012

Thailand
2012: five days spent in northern Thailand in the mountains
near Chiang Mai, with a trip to Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle
area, 24.11.2012

India 2012:
a four days trip to Kerala in southern India, visiting the backwaters
around Alappuzha and Kochi, a city with a rich colonial heritage,
24.11.2012

Kerala:
110 photos of Kerala, a coastal state in southwestern India, known for
its backwaters area and unique culture (includes the Kochi gallery),
18.11.2012

Jakarta:
109 photos of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and the largest city in
SE Asia, 03.11.2012

Pom
Pom: 29 photos of Pom Pom, a small island with white coral
sand beaches in the Celebes sea, not far from Semporna, 16.10.2012

Around
Yazd: 70 photos of sights and attractions in the region
around Yazd, Iran, 25.03.2012

Abyaneh:
18 photos of the pictoresque village of Abyaneh, with its red mud brick
houses, 25.03.2012

Major update to the site's HTML code, 18.03.2012:

All pages except the travelogues pages are now HTML 4.01 strict.

In all pages except the travelogues pages CSS is now used
for layout instead of tables, except for the thumbnail tables, the
comment entry forms and a few other tabular data displays. The
thumbnail tables could be done with CSS instead of tables, but would
not properly display in IE7 because IE7 does not support some CSS tags.

The Javascript dropdown menus have now been replaced with
CSS versions, which will also run with Javascript disabled. The main
benefit is the perfect alignment of the dropdown menus with the pages
of the site (previously the position of the dropdown menus would vary
slightly depending on the browser used). The small drawback is that
probably IE6 doesn't display properly the dropdown menus (haven't
tested it), but IE6 is on the way out with the market share below 1%
right now.

New CSS dropdown menus for the categories and the
travelogues on the homepage of the site.

Granada:
68 photos of Granada, a Spanish city in Andalusia famous for the
Alhambra palace and citadel, 05.03.2012

Pasargadae:
30 photos of Pasargadae, the ancient Persian capital and a UNESCO World
Heritage Site, 26.02.2012

Search page user interface improved: now it is possible to
choose the number of search results displayed on one page and the
presentation has been improved by making the Select and Lighbox link
only appear when hovering on the thumbnail, thereby allowing a more
efficient use of screen space. 22.02.2012

Temple of
Seti in Abydos: 23 photos of the 19th dynasty temple of Seti
in Abydos, with its very well preserved bas-reliefs, 19.02.2012

In the gallery pages the Select and Lighbox links now
appear when you hover on the thumbnails. Previously these links were
static and used to take up screen space. This feature has been
implemented entirely with CSS (no Javascript), 12.02.2012

Tehran:
126 photos of Tehran, the capital and largest city of Iran. 51 new
photos in three galleries (Azadi square Mellat park, Sa'ad Abad
complex) added on 12.02.2012

Added new navigation buttons on the image pages: when the
cursor hovers over the image three white buttons appear (previous
image, next image, photo gallery), allowing a more easy and comfortable
navigation, 06.02.2012

Added new image type "HDR" to mark high dynamic range
images which have been obtained by merging images of the same subject
taken with different exposure settings, 04.02.2012

Siwa oasis:
115 photos of the Siwa oasis in western Egypt, one of the more remote
desert oases in Egypt, 31.01.2012

Cyclades:
334 photos of the Cyclades, a group of 220 islands in the Aegean
located to the southeast of central Greece, 22.01.2012

Piraeus:
9 photos of Piraeus, the most important harbour in Greece and the
departure point for the ferries to the Aegean, 22.01.2012

Panoramic
views: 7 panoramic photos of Athens: added one new photo on
22.01.2012

Acropolis:
43 photos of the Acropolis of Athens, with the Parthenon, Erechtheion
and other ruins: added 16 new photos on 22.01.2012

Mt
Damavand: 120 photos of an expedition to Mt Damavand in Iran,
the highest mountain in the Middle East and the highest volcano in
Asia, 01.10.2011

Sevilla:
80 photos of Sevilla, the capital of the region of Andalusia in
southern Spain, 21.09.2011

Most site pages now use the HTML 4.01 strict doctype, which
means better compliance with web standards and more consistent display
across different browsers. In addition, in an effort to simplify the
HTML code, the number of tables in the pages has been reduced.
17.09.2011

Johor
Bahru: 29 photos of Johor Bahru, a large Malaysian city at
the southernmost tip of peninsular Malaysia, 05.04.2010

Oulu:
50 photos of Oulu. a major technological centre in the north of
Finland, 24.03.2010

Jordan
2009-10 travelogue: a two weeks trip from north to south
covering Amman, Jerash, the Dead Sea, Petra and Aqaba 29.03.2010

Egypt
2010 travelogue: six days spent in the Sinai visiting Sharm
el-Sheikh and the St Catherine monastery, 29.03.2010

Helsinki:
69 photos of Helsinki, the capital of Finland and its most populous
city, 22.03.2010

Gallery categories
created: galleries can now belong to several categories (currently
180), which are hierarchically grouped into topics. At the bottom of
the gallery pages there are now links to the categories pages. These
pages list either all galleries in specific categories or the
subcategories. The user interface and the content management system
have been adapted to accomodate the categories. 15.03.2010

Wendelstein:
35 photos of Mt Wendelstein, an 1838m high mountain in the Bavarian
alps offering views of the northern Alps, 06.02.2010

Kuching:
63 photos of Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, a pleasant town with many
green areas and interesting colonial era buildings. Gallery
restructured, 10 new images, many older images reprocessed, 31.01.2010

Anna
Rais longhouse: 26 photos of the Anna Rais longhouse, a
Bidayuh settlement about 100km south of Kuching in Sarawak, 29.01.2010

Petra:
118 photos of Petra, the forgotten city carved into the rock in
southern Jordan, 23.01.2010

Sematan:
30 photos of the village of Sematan in western Sarawak and of its nice
beach, 15.01.2010

Osaka:
66 photos of Osaka, the second largest city and an important commercial
centre in Japan, 09.01.2010

Gunung
Gading National Park: 20 photos of the Gunung Gading national
park in western Sarawak, a site dedicated to the conservation of the
rafflesia flower, 17.12.2009

User interface improvement for the gallery pages and
overall site software improvement, 12.12.2009:

Gallery pages contain at the bottom "other galleries"
navigation bar for direct access of other related galleries at the same
level.

Internal data structure of galleries modified by adding
father gallery field: now the father gallery no longer has to be the
one with the higher level in the directory structure, allowing
decoupling of directory structure and gallery structure.

Dropdown menus now reflect site structure.

World regions site pages now 100% consistent with site
structure.

Efficiency of site generation script substantially
increased (site is now generated faster)

All gallery pages now use precomputed thumbnail sections,
thereby reducing the load on the server and allowing faster display of
the site pages.

Layout change for image pages: bottom navigation bar added,
with direct links to all images of a gallery and forward/backward
links, 23.11.2009

Mystras:
38 photos of the Byzantine site of Mystras in the Peloponnese, with its
ruins, palace, fortress, churches and monasteries, 21.11.2009

Kyoto:
112 photos of Kyoto, the cultural centre of Japan and its former
imperial capital, 18.10.2009

11.10.2009: added 200 localised Google maps to the
galleries of the site. The maps offer the full set of controls: zoom,
pan and map type. Layout of the gallery pages improved.

02.10.2009: reviewed the names of all images. Corrected
typos and spelling errors, used strictly British English, researched
the names of the images again for more accuracy. Updated the names of
about 400 images.

Jerusalem:
147 photos of Jerusalem, the most significant city in Israel, home to
the holiest sites of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, 29.09.2009

Himeji
castle: 37 photos of the Himeji castle, the finest surviving
example of early 17th century Japanese fortress architecture,
14.12.2008

Paris:
166 photos of Paris, the capital of France. The gallery includes all
major sites of the city, including the Eiffel tower, the Notre Dame
cathedral, Hotel de Ville, the Louvre, the Champs Elysees, Montmartre,
La Defense and more, 07.12.2008

Bangalore:
108 photos of Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka and a major hub for
the IT and biotech industry, 16.11.2008

Ubon
Ratchathani: 25 photos of Ubon Ratchathani, an important
provincial capital in the east of Thailand, 15.07.2006

Si
Phan Don (4000 islands): 85 photos of the 4000 islands
region, in the extreme south of Laos, where the Mekong river breaks up
in a miriad of arms surrounding countless islands and islets,
09.07.2006

Bolaven
plateau: 168 photos of the Bolaven plateau, a highlands area
in southern Laos, 28.06.2006

Hangzhou:
51 photos of Hangzhou, a major tourist attraction and elegant city in
eastern China lying in a beautiful setting, 17.06.2006

The
Annapurna Trek: 129 photos of the trek around the Annapurna
mountain range, 18.12.2005

Beijing:
220 photos of Beijing, the capital of the People's republic of China
and of the Great Wall. Gallery updated in Oct. 2008 with 62 new photos,
04.12.2005

Seoul:
180 photos of the capital of South Korea with the Beomnyeonsa,
Bongeunsa and other Buddhist temples, the Gyeongbokgung palace and the
change of the guard, downtown Seoul, the COEX International convention
centre, the Tapgol park, Seoul by night, Korean food and people, 26.11.2005

Taipei:
136 photos of the capital of Taiwan with the Taipei 101 skyscraper,
currently the tallest building in the world, the Chiang Kai Shek
memorial, the Longshan temple, the Shilin night market, panorama views
and other photos of Taipei, 08.11.2005

11.09.2002: Suggestions & Comments feature
implemented: visitors to the site can now leave informal and anonymous
comments. Over the years this feature has turned out to be very useful.
A good number of comments are very useful and have helped improving
this site.